Jack and Rose could never have BOTH survived on the door in Titanic… director James Cameron settles 20 year debate

For years, people have argued Kate Winslet's character was selfish to let Jack die

By JOSIE GRIFFITHS

31st January 2017,6:37 pm

Updated: 30th November 2017,7:44 pm

TITANIC is one of the greatest, and saddest, love stories of all time.

The film received 14 Oscar nominations while Kate Winslet and Leonardo Di Caprio’s top deck smooch was voted the best movie kiss of all time, but that hasn’t stopped some critics being outraged that Rose hunky Jack sink to the depths of the ocean and die.

James also dismissed Mythbuster’s attempt to prove Rose and Jack could both float to safety – saying their plan would have killed the pair

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Back in 2012, Mythbusters waded into the debate by getting two grown men to climb onto a plank of wood and see if it would float. Spoiler alert – it did.

Now, director James Cameron has ended his 20 years of silence on the topic – in the hopes of settling the debate once and for all.

Speaking to the Daily Beast, he said: “Look, it’s very, very simple: you read page 147 of the script and it says, ‘Jack gets off the board and gives his place to her so that she can survive.’

“It’s that simple. You can do all the post-analysis you want.

“OK, so let’s really play that out: you’re Jack, you’re in water thats 28 degrees (-2C), your brain is starting to get hypothermia.

“Mythbusters asks you to now go take off your life vest, take hers off, swim underneath this thing, attach it in some way that it won’t just wash out two minutes later – which means you’re underwater tying this thing on in 28-degree water, and that’s going to take you five to ten minutes, so by the time you come back up you’re already dead.

“So that wouldn’t work. His best choice was to keep his upper body out of the water and hope to get pulled out by a boat or something before he died.”

Sadly, as we all know, Jack didn’t manage to get pulled out by a boat. But hopefully conspiracy theorists will now give poor Rose a break.